EACommunityTeam, author of the comment with -683,000 downvotes, has at least six other comments with more than -13,000 in karma each. It seems that this graph is limited to looking at a user's most downvoted comment and that any other highly-downvoted comments they may have are omitted. Otherwise /u/EACommunityTeam/ would own at least 7 of the top 10 on this chart.

Fun fact: As you can see, EA's userpage displays over 12.000 total karma. This is because you can only lose ~100 karma per comment posted, so the massively downvoted comment didn't deteriorate their total karma. Which may feel a little disheartening for those involved in attemtping to berate them.

reddit probably could have paid for the next decade of server time if they'd introduced the option of giving a user 'reddit lead', removing 100 karma from the targeted user's account for every purchase. And it would have given you that sense of pride and accomplishment to boot!

I like this, and maybe the lesser “reddit coal” to be given at Christmas time for removing slightly less karma. On the other hand, if you’re a troll, think of the “pride and accomplishment” of knowing that people felt strongly enough to pay real money to downvote you.

You are 'old' the day you feel there is nothing left to learn or anything new has little value. For some of my friends that happened in their early 20's, I also know people in their 70's who are still 'young of mind'.

Nah, he edited a comment that said "Fuck you spez" to "Fuck you T_D mod". If I recall correctly. Simple mods cannot edit other people comments.

Which actually was interesting for a reason depending from jurisdiction (if, again, I'm not mistaken.)

Thing is, Reddit now is just a hoster of it's comments. Meaning that if there is something illegal on Reddit, Reddit just has to "remove it in a reasonable time." If I write something fun how we should gas some minorities and all, then Reddit just has to delete it, for they just host whatever people send in. Simple.

But, the second spez had that hissy fit and edited someone's comment, the whole structure of Reddit changed from "host of other people comments" to "media that regulates it's content (not deletes) thus is immediately responsible for anything on the site." Basically shot themselves in the leg hardcore, but probably it would all depend from the judge and jury and all that.

At least that is what I read on some blogs when the whole shebang happened.

There was a study done, years back, talking about how Redditors love following trends. The researchers would make same/similar comments and use alts to get the voting going, apparently showing that once the up or down trend starts it continues(usually).

Absolutely this. If you make a funny but controversial joke and it has 50 upvotes people Will see it and say "yeah that's pretty funny regardless" and upvote. With 50 downvotes that same person might see it and think "wow that's in poor taste" and downvote. I don't think it's necessarily intentional but it definitely seems to happen.

Indeed, there was this AMA of a asexual person, he got 80 downvotes on multiple comments on a thread about why he feels asexual, nothing wrong, people just downvoted because it "sounded fake" for the first people that downvoted

A couple of people downvote it to be funny, then the more downvoted it gets, the more it becomes a joke to see how far you can downvote it. It's like when there's a Nice comment chain and one comment inexplicably gets downvoted. Just how the reddit up/down jerk plays out

Popcorn admin was also the CEO at the time. Sure the CEO technically is an admin, but it seems like a massive understatement to merely refer to Ellen Pao as an "admin" in such a tumultuous period of reddit history. She essentially lost her job in the fallout, did she not?

it seems like a massive understatement to merely refer to Ellen Pao as an "admin" in such a tumultuous period of reddit history. She essentially lost her job in the fallout, did she not?

I've heard speculation that she was meant to be an interim CEO all along, taking on all the negativity in the wake of big changes at Reddit and then being let go to make way for the actual next CEO.

Brilliant plan, if true. Everyone knows Pao's name and associates her with that tumultuous period in Reddit history -- even though behind the scenes she was (allegedly) actually trying to support the users who were so angry with her.

Shapiro has pointed out that it's easy to notice a media bias when "simple mistakes" all go in the same direction. Like it's not even surprising that it was spun against T_D when it was actually the reddit CEO totally screwing over T_D

Unless there was another case of this happening the "T_D Mod Editing Comments" one wasn't a mod, it was spez (so not a mod, but an admin, and not just any admin, but the CEO of Reddit).

And iirc the "IAmA Mod Removing Post" one was karmanaut removing the Bad Luck Brian AMA where he actually turned out to be right (he removed the post for insufficient proof, and it turned out the guy who made it wasn't actually the guy from the BLB meme).

Yeah, was gonna point out the same thing. That's a pretty huge distinction.

He seems to have screwed up a few descriptions:

T_D Mod editing comments

Wasn't a mod editing comments, it was Spez (an Admin/CEO of reddit) editing comments on T_D that mentioned him, replacing his name with T_D mod's usernames.

Admins justifying Automods

Not at all what that comment was about, it was them justifying letting go Victoria who was massively important for organizing AMA's. Nothing to do with "Automod", which no mod has a significant problem with.

I swear I saw this exact graph soon after the "pride and accomplishment" thing was over... Same color scheme and everything. I'm in no position to go searching but I smell bullshit on the OC tag.

Edit: I couldn't find the original but this is probably NOT OC.

I did some slight digging and a modified version of the same graph is posted on the Donald. http://i.magaimg.net/img/3guu.png posted 5 days ago. (some guy probably whining about having 2 spots on it) I haven't stumbled across the original but this should at least raise some questions.

Edit 2: Looks like I'm actually wrong, as this picture was posted 5 days ago from OP but was removed due to rule 3. I must have scrolled past it then and my memory melted together the old similar post with that one. Unless this rabbit hole goes further down, it checks out.

Seems like here we have yet another example of "interesting data, definitively non-beautiful portrayal"

The people who make ugly charts of interesting data really need to get together with the people who make pretty charts of uninformative data...and/or people just need to stop upvoting things that are boring or ugly (send them to /r/dataisinteresting instead).

There likely won't be much context for the "Cat." post. Every post in /r/CatsStandingUp only says "Cat." People tend to vote randomly, and sometimes people start to get downvoted and everyone else piles on. Sometimes people really pile on.

As far as I know, if you give someone gold you can send a message to them delivered straight to their inbox, and get a notification for it no matter what, so some of those people might have sent EA a message

One of the few times I've sided with them. Honestly I think the backlash against them and others like them is why they're so protective, conspiratorial, and aggressive. Perhaps this shit wouldn't have gotten so far if it didn't seem like every single authority was bent on fucking with them rather than debating.

Not deceptive, OP was just ignorant and did a poor job researching. He did the same thing on number 3, which was actually a Riot employee, not a "LOL player". Also "Admins justifying Automods" is not at all what that comment was about, it was them justifying letting go Victoria who was massively important for organizing AMA's. Nothing to do with "Automod", which no mod has a problem with.

If you're out of the loop, a bunch of T_D commenters were posting comments to the effect of "fuck /u/spez" in the wake of another admin decision they saw as targeting them specifically, and in response the CEO of reddit spent an hour using his access to the site backend to stealth edit the comments such that they were directed at T_D moderators instead.

The timing with E3 going on is impeccable. Such a good reminder for when games like Anthem come out. They promise “continuous improvements”, let’s look at game s like SWBF2 or even ME:A to see how they support games post launch.

You guys are just giving TD more steam when you try to say it was the TD editing posts when it was actually the CEO of reddit messing with TD’s posts and changing what they said.

Edit: also, admin defending TD? Did you read his comment? He literally wishes them to fail but doesn’t want to ban them because he thinks it will make it worse. Holy shit this list is bias. Love or hate TD this post is fake news.